Monday, October 31st, 2011
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| this Week in Wayfarers: * North Bay couple to be 3rd CWA Honorary Commodore * spring can't come too soon for Beowulf * Bennett MK IV at the Show? * sacrilege???!!! new MK IV modified already * a likely answer to the cracks in the Mark III mystery * a Rules question regarding the finish * a very valid note of concern and caution regarding changes to Class Rule 35.3 * a final farewell to Ken Jensen Jr. and other items from Ken Sr. |
| Subject: Dave (and Carol!) Hansman
to succeed George Blanchard as CWA Honorary Commodore From:
David & Carol Hansman
To:
W421, Mike & Darlene Codd
Sent:
Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:05 PM
Subject:
CWA Honorary Commodore
Dear Mike:
I am pleased and somewhat humbled that the executive of the CWA would consider me worthy of being the Honorary Commodore. I am very well aware that the two previous Honorary Commodores, Don Rumble and George Blanchard, served the CWA with distinction and, in the case of George, for a very long time (hence the reason why there have only been two Honorary Commodores in the more than 50 years the CWA has existed). I am also aware that there are several other people who have unselfishly served the CWA for many, many years, that were also considered; I am grateful to be included in their company. I am delighted to be able to have Don Rumble’s daughter and her husband – Anne and Fred McNutt – as friends and fellow Wayfarer enthusiasts here in North Bay.  The North Bay connection to the CWA, started so many years ago by people such as Don Rumble, Don Paine and numerous others, has a direct family connection to me through my father. He and Don Rumble were friends through both sailing and skiing. Although Dad could not afford a Wayfarer during those early years, he did regularly go out in his International 14 for the Sunday series races organized by the Trout Lake Sailing Fleet, competing against those same Wayfarer pioneers that made up a strong core of the original CWA. I often went sailing with Dad for those Sunday races, his feeling being that you can be as close to heaven in a sailboat as you would be by going to Sunday school. Carol and I have owned several Wayfarers over the last 20+ years, but it was the acquisition and rebuilding of W282 BANSHEE, and sailing her in the 2004 Worlds with my Dad as crew, that really got me focussed back on this wonderful class of boat and the people who sail them. With this coming year 2012 being the 50th anniversary of the first North Bay Wayfarer Weekend, Carol and I look forward, with great anticipation, to once again co-hosting this event with NBYC. Our recent purchase of W10865, which we have named BEOWULF, will allow our sailing this coming year in boats which span nearly the entire “lifetime” of the CWA in Canada – W282 Banshee and Terry Gregg winning the North American’s in 1961 and W10865 and the Hartley team winning the North American’s in 2011, fifty years apart! Taking all this into account, we accept the CWA’s invitation for me to become the next Honorary Commodore. I say “we accept” as everyone who knows me realizes that Carol is an indispensable part of what makes Wayfaring so pleasurable for me. I would not want it any other way. Without her brains, personality, persistence and imagination, my successes in life would be far fewer and our North Bay Wayfarer Weekend far less organized or fun. So, when you get me, you get her, too. We will attempt to put our own unique stamp on the position. Obviously, given the distances, it will not be as easy to be engaged on a daily basis as George would have been, but in my travels, and during each opportunity I get in sailing, either with Wayfarers or other classes of boat, I will endeavour to represent, and be an ambassador for, the CWA to the best of my ability. Thank you sincerely. David Hansman W 282 BANSHEE W 10865 BEOWULF North Bay |
| Subject: spring can't
come too soon for Beowulf From:
David & Carol Hansman
Sent:
Sunday, October 30, 2011 9:48 AM
Subject:
A name for Wayfarer W10865
 Hello
Al:
We had a lot of fun coming up with a name for our Mk IV 10865 that the Hartley team (above) demonstrated at the North Americans in early September. After going through a couple hundred possibilities, it was Carol that hit on the perfect one. Of course, with his “emotional” attachment to the boat, we had to give Richard Hartley as say in the matter. As you can see, the name was “approved at the highest level”. We will leave what constitutes “the highest level” to our imagination! So the new, “approved at the highest level” name for W10865 is BEOWULF named after the warrior hero in the oldest surviving English epic (see http://www.lnstar.com/beowulf/index.html). This would seem to be very appropriate. Although BEOWULF and BANSHEE are both now safely and securely stored away together in their winter container, we are obviously already looking forward to spring time and the 2012 sailing season. Best regards, Dave and Carol Hansman W282 BANSHEE W10865 BEOWULF |
| Subject: Bennett MK IV at the Show?
From: uncle-al3854@cogeco.ca
Subject: MK IV in Boat Show??? Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:12:15 -0400 ... Dave Hansman
suggests we should ask John Cawthorne if we can display his new beauty
at the Boat Show this year - and he's right, of course.
Best regards,
Uncle Al (W3854)
From:
Kit Wallace
Sent:
Thursday, October 27, 2011 9:48 AM
Hi Al,
I've already approached John Cawthorne about the possibility of putting his Mark IV in the Boat Show. Unfortunately he declined because he's going to be on vacation at that time, but also because of the logistics of retrieving the boat which is stored in a friend's garage for the winter. He'll be retiring next year and suggested he'd be agreeable to putting the boat in the 2013 show! It would be great to get a new Wayfarer on display at the Boat Show this year. Maybe this is a bit presumtuous of me to ask, but would Dave Hansman be willing to trail his down from North Bay? (The boat did come with an undercover didn't it?) Kit From:
Hansman, Dave
Sent:
Friday, October 28, 2011 9:55 AM
Hi
Kit:
I would be most happy to include my Mk IV in the boat show except for the fact that the logistics for me would also be a killer. Just this past weekend, I put both my Wayfarers into secure, dry cold storage at a site north of the city. They both are in one 20’ container, stacked, and, of course, the Mk IV is on top, sitting in a wooden cradle. To add to the issue, the site does not have snow removal, so by the time the boat show arrives, there will be 2’ or 3’ feet of snow on the ground. I would have to get a loader or some other equipment to remove the snow so as to get a vehicle access to the site (and would probably have to get it done again so as to get the boat back in storage after the show). Couple this with the fact that I would have a 3 or 4 hour time frame on each end of the trip to “un-store” the boat (dismantle the cradle and remove it from the container, etc.) and get it ready for the road (and then “re-store” it and cradle it later in the container) plus the 8 hours needed for each of the two round trips to Toronto, you start to understand why I thought it might be easier if John could free his up for the event. Suffice it to say, I did consider the idea of bringing mine for short while…….. Speaking of January, for the last three years I have been in Australia at the time of the boat show and the AGM. While this is not an undue hardship (Australia in January), I am going to try and arrange to be in Canada in January (by deferring the Jan Aus trip to February or March) so as to be able to make the boat show and AGM. Hopefully, that will work out and some other unplanned trip will not get in the way. I leave for Australia this weekend which will be followed by a trip to England and another to Uruguay all before the end of November. I hope that December and January will allow the chance to stay closer to home. Best regards from North Bay, Dave From:
Al Schonborn
To:
Nick Seraphinoff W10864 ; Kit Wallace ; Hansman, Dave
Sent:
Friday, October 28, 2011 7:48 PM
Subject:
MK IV in Boat Show???
Hi, guys:
Am copying Nick
Seraphinoff and Marc Bennett to see how badly they want the MK IV in
this year's show. Given that ours are not logistically possible, it
would have to be a US-based boat, likely not Richard Watterson's who
has added modifications (see below).
What do you think?
Best regards,
Uncle Al (W3854)
From:
Marc Bennett
To:
Al Schonborn
Sent:
Friday, October 28, 2011 9:49 PM
I guess I am the only boat in reach. I will talk to work and
see what I can do. I do not want to jep. my time for the Midwinters.
From:
Al Schonborn
To:
Marc Bennett
Cc:
Tony Krauss W864 ; Nick Seraphinoff W10864
Sent:
Friday, October 28, 2011 10:12 PM
Get Nick to take charge
of the whole thing. It's especially in his interests to have the MK IV
on display what with his need to find company for the Osprey. Nick
would enjoy this, I expect, and could stay at our place as much as
needed, including the time of the AGM which will be as always, the day
before the Show ends. We can talk more at our get-together in two
weeks, esp. re: Midwinters plans for you and me and Tony. Tony's "we
have to talk" sounded ominous - hope he and I are still a team for that.
Best regards,
Uncle Al (W3854)
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Subject: a Rules question regarding the finish
From: Al Schonborn <uncle-al3854@cogeco.ca> Sent: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 8:24 pm This is a classic
question to which many RCs do not know the answer although it is in the
RRS - as follows:
28 Sailing the
Course
28.1 A boat shall start, pass each mark on the required side in the correct order, and finish, so that a string representing her track after starting and until finishing would, when drawn taut (a) pass each mark on the required side, (b) touch each rounding mark, and (c) pass between the marks of a gate from the direction of the previous mark. She may correct any errors to comply with this rule. After finishing, a boat need not cross the finishing line completely. The fact that in Rule 28, finish is in italics means we are talking about a definition - see below - which requires finishing boats to cross the line from the direction of the last mark. (There is an appeal that says that if the finish line is close to being directionally an extension of the last leg, a boat is entitled to use its best judgment and cross the line in either direction. I was briefly
confused by 28.1(a) which says you must pass each mark on the required
side. In your scenario, that would seem to imply that you are
required to leave the finish mark to starboard. But if we consider the
fact that Rule 28.1 clearly requires us to finish according to the
definition of finishing and there is no other option, that means that
in the case of the finish mark, the required side is the one that lets
you finish according to the definition of finishing, i.e. cross from
the direction of the last mark and not the buoys to starboard indicated
by the RC.
Definitions A term used as stated below is shown in italic
type or, in preambles, in bold italic type.
A very good thing
to know. Hope I've cleared this up for you. Best wishes for happy
sailing.
Best regards,
Uncle Al (W3854)
PS: Where do you
sail? I am in Oakville, ON just west of Toronto.
From:
stu craig
Sent:
Sunday, October 23, 2011 8:40 PM
Got it and thank
you . I am sailing out of New London, CT. The race
committee is saying that A is the last mark. We sailed through
the finish line with A to port, did not hear the gun, so we tacked back
and went around the mark, did the U turn and finished getting the gun
but ended up taking second on corrected time 35 seconds late. The
turn took more than 35 seconds so we should have won.
thanks again for the info.
Stu Craig
From:
Al Schonborn
Sent:
Sunday, October 23, 2011 9:12 PM
Hi, Stu:
from the direction of
the last mark clearly implies the mark prior to the mark that is
one end of the finish line - any other interpretation makes nonsense of
the phrase "from the diection of the last mark". If possible, you
should sit down in a non-confrontational setting with your RC and get
them to see the light over a beer, etc. Perhaps get them to consult a
Rules authority they respect? other than me whom they don't know from
Adam. Sorry you got done out of first place. If you wanted to take it
that far, you could appeal the RC's decision and I guarantee you would
win. Or you could have requested redress under Rule 62 since an
improper action of the RC made your finish significantly worse.
Have a look at http://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/CaseBook20092012with2011changes-[9701].pdf Case
82 on page 164 which if nothing else has a diagram showing what is
meant by "from the direction of the last mark" - the finish mark does
not/cannot equal the last mark for the purposes of the Finish
definition!!!!
If you have time, keep
me posted about any further developments. And remember, RCs are hard to
find and give of their time and effort. We need to be nice to them!!!
Best regards,
Uncle Al (W3854)
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| Subject: a very valid note of concern
and caution regarding changes to Class Rule 35.3 From:
John Mellor
Sent:
Monday, October 24, 2011 5:39 AM
Subject:
Class Rule 35.3
Dear Al,
regarding rule 35.3. Electrically operated instruments. I urge caution in dispensing with this rule. The system below when coupled to transducers is priced at over 1000 Euros. Further, when cruising, I can link up my iphone with its charts and GPS to my ipad. I then have a chart plotter with the track of my wake and all the buoyage and coast. With the racing buoys all positioned on the chart I can easily see if I am off course or within the zone for making the windward mark. Couple this to the Tacktic and you then have a major advantage. TacktiRace Master System T075 Part No: TAT075
John W1162 From:
Al Schonborn
Sent:
Monday, October 24, 2011 10:44 PM
You raise very
valid points, John. Thank you. We'll need to think some more and see if
we can't come up with a happy medium. In any case, we have lots of time
to play with things before any official proposal needs to be made: til
Fall 2012.
Best regards,
Uncle Al
(W3854)
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| Subject: a final farewell to Ken Jensen Jr. and other items from
Ken Sr. From:
KEN-Krist. H. Jensen
To:
Trudy Davis
Sent:
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 1:39 PM
Subject:
Sea-Burial Ken jr.
Dearest Trudy,
Thanks a lot for your lovely birthday card that really
thrilled me with the beautiful, lovely flowers and the great message.
The included below here may - acc. Uncle Al -
possibly come out in his Whiffle.
I am very pleased that Cara Mia is back where she
belongs and have nodded my happy sympathy to Don's picture on my
desk. La-iad is helping to fight the flooding at her Mother's
village 86 km WNW of Bangkok, filling sandbags and building dams.
She bought her Mother a small boat, a plastic thing slightly
longer than an Optimist-dinghy, but luckily their old family farmhouse
stands on poles. I hope to travel EAST in about three - four weeks,
well hopefully!
All my very best wishes and please stay
healthy. Many kind regards with love and big
hugs. Yours, Ken t.o.
In
Memoriam - 55 years of dinghy-sailing come to an end.
 Ken på Oslofjord 050905 During our last talk, speaking and
joking in English as our very closeThai ladyfriend, La-iad, was
present, he rounded off in Danish looking straight at me saying: "Jah,
thanks for visiting, and thanks for all !" That made me kind of wonder
and struck me as special, but the next day he went into a coma, from
where he never came back.
He was the last one, bar me, of
the founding members of SWS/SWA being formed on the Swedish island of
VEN (Tycho Brahe, the stargazer's island) in the Sound on the 18th of
AUG 1968. Frank and Margaret Dye came sailing in W48 Wanderer
from Esbjerg along the challenging Westcoast of Jutland
through the Limfjord and Kattegat Sea to join us there - making a total of eleven
W.s present.
Many stories could be told, but
one especially comes to my mind. While sailing, a light
rainshower came along, so the babylift with Ken's nine years younger
brother - sleeping soundly - was placed under the foredecks out of
harm's way - so we thought! When he woke up, Ken jr. looked at
him, then he turned to me with a shrewd and apologetic smile: "Wow, he
is quite wet, but smiling happily!" The rain along the mast had dripped
down on him.
  Ken jr.'s wife was in an escorting keelboat, and wrote, when sending me the pictures: "Ken is back at Sea!" Indeed so, as the outflow from the Baltic called the Coastal Current, goes all the way past the southern part of Scandinavia, and then along the west coast of Norway to beyond the Polar Circle and the Lofoten Isles where it cools down and joins the global circulation of seawater. In W1348 Maitken (above) are his daughter, son-in-law and the old salt, his father, who was given - by Ken t.y. - the task of making this ceremony come true. Ken t.o., W1348 "Maitken" addendum: From:
KEN-Krist. H. Jensen
Sent:
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:43 PM
Dear
Al,
Thanks a lot
for your kind mail, and your web site announcement of KTY's death that
gave a lot of comforting reactions from many of the W-family.
Addendum
Tycho Brahe is supposed to be the one that started the era
of modern astronomy. However, at the time, the sailing fraternity and
fishermen complained to the king that Tycho was neglecting to keep the
fire going on the rocky and hilly range 'Kullen', a fire that was
needed for their safe navigation.
So Tycho Brahe left VEN (which has a museum and castle ruins) for Praha, where he later died - apparently from quicksilver poisening. Something related to foodplates or containers.  July 2011: Ken and La-iad fish while Uncle Al operates the camera in the very place where Ken Jr. was later buried at sea. La--iad sends
her regards via SKYPE - we really enjoyed our sail with you this
summer, good and enjoyable fun.
Our very best
for you and yours. Ken t.o.
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